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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2018 Feb 5;42(3):520–530. doi: 10.1111/acer.13589

Table 1.

Sample descriptives and genotyping procedures in four studies of alcohol use disorders.

ALSPAC FT12 COGA IASPSAD
N 4,304 1,135 2,097 706
% Female 57.0 53.6 53.6 34.3
Mean age (SD) 17.9 22.4 35.1 41.8
Recruitment strategy Birth cohort Twin birth cohort Families of treatment-seeking patients Siblings of treatment-seeking patients
Phenotype Factor score of DSM-IV and AUDIT AD symptoms DSM-IV AD symptoms DSM-IV AD symptoms DSM-IV AD symptoms
Genotyping platform Illumina Human Hap550 Quada Illumina Human670-QuadCustom BeadChipa Illumina Human OmniExpress array 12.VIa; Illumina Human 1M-Duo BeadChipa Affymetrix Human SNP Array 6.0b
Quality control filtering MAF < 1%, call rate < 95%, HWE p < 5 × 10−7, missingness > 3%, heterozygosity outliers, gender mismatch, cryptic relatedness (IBD > 10%) MAF < 1%, call rate < 95%, HWE p < 10−6, missingness > 5%, heterozygosity outliers, gender mismatch, cryptic relatedness (outside of known families) MAF < 5%, GenCall score < .15, HWE p < 10−6, inconsistent calls between Omni and 1M arrays, Mendelian errors, cryptic relatedness (outside of known families) MAF < 1%, call rate < 97%, HWE p < 10−6, missingness > 3%, cryptic relatedness (IBD > 5% outside of known families)
1000 Genomes version Phase 1 v3, March 2012 Phase 1 v3, March 2012 Phase 1 v2, December 2010 (EUR) Phase 1 v3, March 2012
Reference genome build GRCh37 GRCh37 GRCh37 GRCh37
Imputation software MACH/Minimacc ShapeITe; IMPUTE2f BEAGLE 3.3.1d ShapeITe; IMPUTE2f
Number of imputed SNPs 8,458,542 (MAF>.01) 6,729,635 (MAF>.01) 4,150,783 (MAF>.05) 8,347,617 (MAF>.01)
Reference for full genotyping details Edwards et al. (2015); Fatemifar et al. (2013) Salvatore et al. (2014); Konttinen et al. (2015) Kapoor et al. (2014); Wang et al. (2013) Adkins et al. (2017)

AD = alcohol dependence, MAF = minor allele frequency, HWE = Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, IBD = identity-by-descent, SNP = single nucleotide polymorphism.

a

Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA,

b

Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA, USA,

d

Browning & Browning, 2007,

e

Delaneau et al., 2012,

f

Howie et al., 2009